I’ve spent a lot of my life up in my head.

I used to think that’s where I could solve all the problems I had. My hip pain, my stomach problems, my relationship stress, my family disagreements, and even my professional life. So, for most of my life, I spent it thinking. 

Thinking about how to solve the problems that exist in my life, as well as the lives of the people I know and love. Oh yeah, I also constantly thought about how I could help people I’ve never met before.

While, all of this was innocent and well-intended, it was ultimately not useful and even turned out to be harmful to me.

You see, the more time I spent in my head, the more problems I noticed AND the more reasons I found that it was hard to change. This all kept me in stuck in my sympathetic nervous system response, “fight or flight.”